Nail-bin.



PATENTEDJAN; 6, 1908.

H. O. AMUNDSON.

NAIL BIN.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 17, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY O. AMUNDSON, OF ALEXANDRIA, MINNESOTA.

NAIL-BIN.

SLPECIFIOATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 717,792, dated January 6, 1903.

Application filed May 17,1902. Serial No. 107,724. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY O. AMUNDsoN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Alexandria, in the county of Douglas and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Nail-Bins, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to bins used in hardware-stores f or displaying and for the sale of nails, the object of the invention being to so constitute the bin or bins that while the'nails are advantageously stored and displayed the nails therein may at the same time be conveniently and expeditiously drawn or raked out directly into a scale-pan for weighing without a second handling of the nails and without scattering the nails upon the floor.

My invention consists principally in forming the bin with an elevated bottom and providing a retaining dam or flange beneath the front of the bin for retaining the nails in a scale-pan.

My invention also consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my new and improved nail-bin, and Fig. 2 is a trans verse sectional elevation of the same.

In the drawings, 2 designates the bottom of the bins, 3 the back, and 4 the top. The fronts of the bins are open, save the flanges 5 5,, which retain the nails at the bottom and allow them to be piled back in the bin, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The flanges 5 5 are parts of or extensions of the front board 6, or they may be made separate and set in. The front board 6 beneath each bin is formed with a curved slot or opening 7 to receive the edge of a scoop or scale-pan 8,'as shown, so that the body of the pan will come beneath the bin, as shown, to receive the nails as they are drawn out of the bin by the nail-rake or otherwise, the nails being held from falling outof the scale-pan by the curved dam or flange 9, formed by the slot. In this way the nails can not only be filled directly out of the bin into the weighing-pan without rehandling or handling them at all with the hands, but all-scattering of the nails upon the I floor is obviated.

Having thus described my invention,'what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A bin comprising side and back walls, an elevated bottom and a front board provided with a circular slot adapted to receive a scoop,

substantially as described.

HENRY O. AMUNDSON.

v Witnesses:

P. O. MUNEL, G. B. WARD. 

